Telling the Stories of Sonora’s Water

"All water carries stories, voices, and drowned towns. To narrate what happens in a basin, you have to follow its waters' full course." An essay by Mexican writer Diego Rodríguez Landeros.

Like the arid U.S. Southwest, northwest Mexico faces an acute water crisis. In recent months, the country’s federal water commission (CONAGUA), Sonora’s state water commission, and the water utility of the city of Hermosillo have proposed building three new dams on the Sonora River, which is already stretched thin by agricultural, urban, and industrial …